1/72 Civil War Armies for Sale EDIT: SOLD!

I'm unlikely ever to game with these armies again, so on to the selling block they go.


These are 1/72 scale American Civil War armies. Figures are a mix of plastic and metal. I have most of them based on 60mm bases for De Bellis Civilus, but you can base them for whatever rules you like.


These figures have seen hard service, and there is some breakage (especially flags) and paint flaking. Nothing too severe, though. If you don't mind spending a weekend touching the figures up and rebasing them, you'll have two complete armies to play with.


There are a total of 333 foot figures, 26 mounted figures, and 9 guns. Email me at smacphee at frontierdotcom if you're interested.

Wargames Accessories Metal Bases

As you may guess, I have a great many painted figures. It's a challenge to store them all. I don't host many games at my house, so my figures need to be portable.

In 15mm, my solution has been to store figures in scrapbooking drawers. Each plastic drawer container has three 12" square drawers. I bought some one square foot linoleum, stuck two together, then stuck some magnetic sheeting to the top. The result is a square foot of magnetized surface, stiff enough to hold figures without bending, but light enough to lift out of the drawer.

The idea is to have all the figures secure in their storage. Each base gets a metal bottom so that they will stay put during transport.

I love Litko bases, but I have found that their "flexible steel" adhesive base bottoms don't form a strong enough bond with sheet magnets. Instead, I use Wargames Accessories' solid metal bases.

When my gaming group adopted an unusual size for our Regimental Fire and Fury infantry, I had to ask Wargames Accessories to whip up a custom sized metal base for me. Fortunately they were able to do so, and at a cost of only $.145 per base.

I ordered 400 of the custom cut bases, so I will have plenty on hand as I continue to paint my armies.

As you can see, the metal strip doesn't add much to the base height. If I worried about such things, I guess I could go with a shorter Litko base.

Here are the Confederates in their storage shelf. I can hold that linoleum upside down without any bases falling off. That's how good the bond is.

If I wanted to speed up game play, I could make movement trays for my Civil War armies. I already use magnetic movement trays for my WAB armies, and I stole this light cavalry tray for this shot.

15mm Napoleonic Portuguese Line Infantry

One of my projects is year is to complete enough troops to fight any General de Brigade Peninsular War scenario. For this, I will need four battalions of Portuguese line infantry.

All the figures are Old Glory. Flags are from Napflags. I painted these in block style, only using highlights on flesh.

15mm ACW Army for Sale

My last attempt to sell an army through the blog did not work too well, so let's try again.

This is Union infantry, based for Fire and Fury. Most figures are based on 1" by 7/8" stands, with 3-5 figures per stand. A few are based on 3/4" stands, 2 figures per stand.

There are 616 figures here, and I am asking $1250 for the lot, including shipping to a US address.

If you're interested, email me at smacphee at frontier dot com.

23 Musket Miniatures Zouaves

30 Battle Honors Chasseurs (14th Brooklyn)

84 Old Glory Iron Brigade / U.S. Regulars

27 Battle Honors Iron Brigade / U.S. Regulars

12 Frontier Infantry

48 Peter Pig Infantry

391 Old Glory and Musket Miniatures Infantry

I went a little nuts with command stands a few years ago, planning to have specific regimental flags for different units.

Blue Moon 18mm Confederate Command

I had not even started these command figures when I posted the review of the Blue Moon rebel infantry. I primed these on Saturday, painted them yesterday, and finished basing this morning.

The command figures are just as good as the rankers. There are ten separate poses in each pack (officer, standard bearer, sergeant), so there's no need for any two command stands to look alike.

Although the command types are in various poses, they all work well with the marching rankers.

Blue Moon 18mm Confederates

When Old Glory announced that they would be releasing a 15mm Civil War range under their Blue Moon brand, I gave a mental shrug and moved on to more interesting things. There are already at least a dozen quality Civil War lines, and I doubted that anyone could improve on the AB / Battle Honors figures.

When Old Glory released the first pictures of the sculpts, I started to take more notice. These figures are very similar in style and overall look to the fantastic Sash and Saber 25mm figures. Old Glory had hooked me again. I renewed my army membership and ordered some samples. Of course, this being the Civil War, my favorite gaming period, my "sample" order consisted of over 400 figures.

I started in on pack 15ACW-18 "Confederate Infantry Marching / Blanket Roll." Each pack has 30 unique figures, and I started with four packs.

Civil War uniforms are not too interesting, at least when compared with Napoleonics or ancients. I usually put a basic block paint job on my 15mm Civil War figures, saving the detail work for their faces, hands, and muskets. I thought these Blue Moon figures called for some two tone work, so these took much longer to finish than usual.

Having spent the past two months with these figures, I am sold. They absolutely look the part. The men are almost in step, with most leading with their right feet. The poses are similar enough to work as a unit, but distinct enough that each man is an individual. This sculptor knows his business. Faces and hands have excellent relief, equipment is accurately rendered while still large enough to paint, and the uniforms have realistic folds.

Some talk on TMP expressed concern that these figures, at 18mm, would tower over 15mm figures. We have been pretty lucky with Civil War figures. Most of the ranges are perfectly compatible, although a few outliers are either giants or pygmies. So how do the Blue Moon figures compare?

Left: AB / Battle Honors Right: Blue Moon

Left: Minifigs Right: Blue Moon

Left: Stone Mountain Right: Blue Moon

Left: Peter Pig (on much shorter bases) Right: Blue Moon

Left: Old Glory (again, shorter bases) Right: Blue Moon

None of the other manufacturers look out of place next to the Blue Moon figures. The Blue Moon figures are slightly taller and bulkier, but I will have no problem mixing these units on the gaming table.

L-R: Stone Mountain, Blue Moon, Minifigs, Blue Moon, AB / Battle Honors

Mixing the figures within the same unit is another story. The Blue Moon figures are a little too big for that.